The real reason for stacks?

[Quillz]

I still don't understand why the original functionality of Stacks was removed in teh first place. In the earlier builds (9A466), Stacks worked just like the old nested folders did in Tiger. That is, if you clicked on a folder within a Stack, it just opened up that folder in a new Stack. Also, you could drag random files and folder into the Dock to make a custom Stack.

All of this worked just fine, why was it removed and why is the final product so crippled in this sense?

 

[roland.g]

I still don't understand why the original functionality of Stacks was removed in teh first place. In the earlier builds (9A466), Stacks worked just like the old nested folders did in Tiger. That is, if you clicked on a folder within a Stack, it just opened up that folder in a new Stack. Also, you could drag random files and folder into the Dock to make a custom Stack.

All of this worked just fine, why was it removed and why is the final product so crippled in this sense?

Really, that would have been great.

 

[roland.g]

I personally like stacks. I got a recents stack, so now I have recent apps and recents documents. Quite handy.

Do you do this via code or by creating a recents smart folder that you then drag.

And that nice little bit of code...

 defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

See note above. Is code necessary or simply a smart recents dragged.

 

[illegalprelude]

In Tiger you could right click on a folder in the dock and see a hierarchical layout. It's sort of like a start menu for them and that's what people miss. Personally, I never used the feature because it reminded me too much of Windows and I use Spotlight as my app launcher anyway.

huh. I didnt even know Tiger had that lol

 

[Eidorian]

Do you do this via code or by creating a recents smart folder that you then drag.



See note above. Is code necessary or simply a smart recents dragged.

I did it via Terminal.

 

[roland.g]

I did it via Terminal.

So I'm guessing of course you see the most recent app on top before you open it.

That's the thing that bugs me. I want the downloads stack to be the green download icon, and the docs stack to be the docs icon, etc.

 

[benpatient]

Aaah. Personally I like launching with Stacks, and i have gotten used to Command+Clicking on an application in the Dock to jump to its folder in Finder, which is really handy IMO

Stacks are useful if you have a folder with 10 or fewer items in it and no nested folders that you want to access. Otherwise it's faster to keep a folder on your desktop.

I've attached a photo of one of my dock folders in tiger. I clicked once and moved the mouse to the right. Let's just say it didn't translate into stacks very well...

 

[Porco]

No-one who says they like Stacks has yet to tell me a convincing reason over folders in the dock in Tiger. It's just a hyped up crippled non-feature. I have a downloads folder in my dock in Tiger. The only thing Stacks does that my Tiger folder doesn't is one bounce to let me know when the download is finished. Big deal. Otherwise it is NOTHING NEW AT ALL, just eye-candy.

Farcically, Apple themselves still have an old web-page up, describing how putting folders in the Dock can bring back the functionality we enjoyed when using OS 9's (and earlier!) Apple Menu:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106203

Dragging a folder or disk to the Dock provides a hierarchical pop-up menu.

A pop-up menu in the Dock offers you the same type of hierarchical submenu structure that was available in the Apple menu of Mac OS 9 and earlier. To create a pop-up menu in the Dock, simply drag a disk or folder icon into the Dock, between the dividing line and the Trash. Disks and folders in the Dock must be placed to the right of or below the divider.

Yes, that's right, Apple's OS X of 2007 is losing something we've had for over 10 (X?) years! For no apparent reason!

ALL they have to do is put a 'list' option in the stacks and bring back hierarchical folder access. GAHHH.